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Supervisors taking students

Professors who have said they are taking PhD, masters or intern students. Search by research area or university, then contact them through their homepage.

How to email a supervisor
  1. Read their homepage and a recent paper first.
  2. Write a short, personal email: who you are, which of their work interests you, and what you would like to research.
  3. Attach your CV and transcript (and anything they ask for below).
  4. Do not send the same email to everyone. Follow up once after about a week.

379 supervisors

2026 Spring/Fall

Wenqian Dong

Oregon State University

Research: High-Performance Computing; System for AI/ML; Parallelism & Distributed Systems for LLM Inference; Multi-Agent Framework Optimization

Openings: 2-3 PhDs with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS

Send: CV, Transcript

25 Fall, 26 Spring

Huijuan Xu

Penn State University

Research: computer vision, vision and language

26 Fall, 27 Spring/Fall

Yuchen Yang

Penn State University

Research: Trustworthy AI, Certified Robustness, LLM, VLM, Privacy, Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Openings: multiple PhDs/interns

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

25 Fall

Hanshen Xiao

Purdue University

Research: Information security&privacy, trustworthy machine learning and learning theory

Openings: 2-3 PhDs with RA/TA and interns

No homepage listed
26 Fall

Jinghan Sun

Purdue University

Research: ML for Systems, Memory/Storage Systems for LLM

Openings: Multiple PhDs/Interns

25 Spring/Fall

Ruqi Zhang

Purdue University

Research: Statistical ML, Bayesian deep learning, LLM alignment, Uncertainty quantification, Sampling/MCMC

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

No homepage listed
25 Spring / Fall

Xupeng Miao

Purdue University

Research: MLSys

Openings: Multiple PhDs

No homepage listed
25 Fall

Yuxiang Peng

Purdue University

Research: Programming language and system design for quantum computers.

Openings: Multiple PhDs

26 Spring(ignore the deadline)/Fall

Shaowu Pan

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research: AI4PDE, Agents for Science, Scientific Machine Learning, Computational Physics, Data-Driven Dynamical Systems

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Fall

Wei Qiu

Rice University

Research: AI for Biomedicine, including aging and age-related diseases, foundation models, and explainable/trustworthy AI (XAI)

Openings: 1 postdoc, 2 PhD

Send: CV, transcript, Research Interest, paper if applicable,

25 Fall/26 Spring

Chongzhou Fang

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research: System security, hardware security, IoT & embedded systems

Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, GRE optional

Send: CV, transcript, Research Interest, paper if applicable,

2025 Fall

Haibo Yang

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research: Reviewer #2

Openings: 1 PhD, interns

26 Spring

Pengfei Li

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research: Trustworthy online algorithms, reliable generative AI, decision-focused learning

Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, GRE (required but no minimum score)

Send: CV, transcript, Research Interest, paper if applicable,

25 Fal / 26 Spring

Yinxi Liu

Rochester Institute of Technology

Research: Program Analysis, Symbolic Reasoning, Software/Web security, Algorithmic Complexity

Openings: 1-2 PhDs

Send: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedx-kvTAtPbLTkzQW-RKheqijoerbNZ7j0C5cukNKJUq-khg/viewform

2025 Spring/Fall

Guimu Guo

Rowan University

Research: Data Mining (Graph), Parallel Computing, GPGPU

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Spring/Fall

Sihan Yu

Rowan University

Research: IoT, Network Security, Mobile Computing, Wireless Communication, AI

Openings: 1-2 PhDs

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Spring / Fall

Xiajun Jiang

Rowan University

Research: Adaptive AI, physics-informed deep learning, AI in health care

Openings: 1 PhD with TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IETLS, GRE optional

Send: CV, Transcript

25 Fall

Chengzhi Mao

Rutgers University

Research: Computer Vision, Large Language Model, Interpretable Machine Learning, Robotics

Openings: Multiple PhDs

No homepage listed
25 Fall, 26 Spring

Hao Wang

Rutgers University

Research: Large Language Model (LLM), Bayesian Deep Learning, LLM Reasoning, Interpretable Machine Learning (ML), ML for Healthcare

Openings: PhDs/Interns

Fall 2026

Lesia Semenova

Rutgers University

Research: Trustworhy AI: Intepretable ML, Model Multiplicity/Uncertainty, Reasoning in LLM, AI Evaluation

Openings: 1-2 PhDs (RA/TA), interns

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Fall

Yifan Hu

Rutgers University

Research: Optimization, RL, Causality

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA, interns

Send: CV, transcript, weekly hour commitments

25 Spring / Fall

Tianyi Li

Saint Louis University

Research: AI in transprtation/traffic systems, automated vehicles

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA

No homepage listed
25 Fall

Xin Zhang

San Diego State University

Research: Spatial-temporal data science, AI, Reinforcement Learning, Generative models

Openings: 2 PhDs with RA

Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE

No homepage listed
26 Fall

Yifan Zhang

San Diego State University

Research: System Security & Privacy; AI Security & Privacy

Openings: 2 PhDs with RA

2026 Spring / Fall

Linyi Li

Simon Fraser University

Research: Trustworthy ML and ML Security, LLM Theory

Openings: 2 PHDs with RAs

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE requirement

Send: https://forms.gle/Zwkh6JNTz7J4xnKn6

No homepage listed
2026 Spring / Fall

Wuyang Chen

Simon Fraser University

Research: AI-for-Math, 3D/4D Reconstruction and Generation

Openings: 2 PhD (RAs)

Requirements: TOEFL

25 Fall (RA, postdoc), 26 Fall (Phd, MS)

Ye Ye

Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China)

Research: AI for population health, AI for medicine, multimodal, LLM, medical informatics

Openings: 1 PhD, 1 Master, 1 Postdoc, 1-2 RA

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest, Sample codes (GitHub)

2025 Spring, Summer, Fall

Pan Lu

Stanford University

Research: LLM reasoning, LLM agents, AI for mathematics, AI for scientific reasoning and discovery

Openings: Multiple interns

Send: CV, Transcript

2026 Fall

Denghui Zhang

Stevens Institute of Technology

Research: DM/AI/NLP, LLM and social science

Openings: 1-2 PhDs, multiple interns

Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo, GRE required

25 Spring / Fall

Hao Wang

Stevens Institute of Technology

Research: LLM Systems (Inference, MoE, RAG), Serverless Computing, Federated Learning

Openings: 2-3 PhDs (Fellowship+RA/TA)

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

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